Sharkwatch SA Blog

Guest comment: “Great staff, good food, amazing trip! Thanks to all!” – Martin + Lee

“Great, great, great white!” – Marc + Jeanet

“Superb!” - John

07/03/2015

Location: Joubertsdam                                                                                                          

Water Temperature: 12.4’C

Depth: 11.3m

Visibility: 0.5m

Number of Sharks: 4

Conditions: Clear skies but high swells.

We set off on our short walk from The Great White House down the street to the harbour and was met with the sight of some impressive 4.0m swell coming in! Luckily, Slashfin, our custom built shark cage diving vessel is safe and sturdy in these conditions and we had no trouble slicing through the swell and heading into the Joubertsdam, which we had all to ourselves today! A small female with a distinctive scratch down the left side of her dorsal gave our visitors their first view of a Great White only five minutes after arriving and stuck around before “Sellendilloh”, one of Ocearch’s satellite tagged sharks, came torpedoing in. We also had two juveniles before heading in for the day. Due to the low tides just before midday we could not make it back into Kleinbaai harbour with such big swell therefore we made our way around Danger Point into Gansbaai Harbour. On the way around we saw a raft of African Penguins out for a feed and also a lone Cape Fur Seal. A fun morning for the adventurous group that joined Marine Dynamics for the day…

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